Does this constitute snobbery?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

One of my fellow charity shop volunteers actually had the nerve to admit to having read, and enjoyed, 'Fifty Shades of Grey', but my attitude towards her hasn't changed in the slightest.

She may, of course, have been trying to ... get to know you better, LMcD?

[french frank]

... as they often commented whilst watching said movies.

[Richard Barrett]

Strolling through the Prado the other day (of course I only visit Spain in February, to avoid the riffraff), I remarked to my companion that anyone who professes to have some idea of what Kafka's work is about without having read it in the original is asking only to be made a fool of. How very true, she replied, and obviously the same could be said of Montaigne, Petrarch, Tacitus and the Pre-Socratics.

[eighthobstruction]

Really?

A couple of people have popped in to engage in low-level abuse but have offered no follow-up. I've certainly been called far worse for far less!

Thought I say it myself, this thread has been an example of the forum at its best: it's got silly at times :) but maybe that was necessary light relief. It's encapsulated an interesting socio-cultural-political discussion, which you'd be unlikely to find in any branch of Wetherspoons.

I'll admit I began the thread in a spirit of frustration after my rather desolating experience in Cleethorpes (a town that invites desolation) but I now feel somewhat better about it all. And guess what? Today, I had an email from the organisation I worked with there on Friday telling me how much they'd enjoyed working with me! :)

Nicely done....I agree....I thought my RF reference might bring some reaction....you seem to have taken it in good spirit....good....I did log in later to retract the R bit, but you had already posted and it was time for bed....it did give me an 'overthink' for the first ten minutes or so of pillow time....

I think there is a great deal of difference between constant posters and occasional posters in what they expect from the posting and reading....some still have the idea that this is Friends of R3 Forum which had a different ethos....
....anyway good....I don't know how your wife who sounds a much more balanced individual, puts up with you....

[MrGongGong]

It's Grimsby up North.

Grimsby isn't really in the North though

(and relax )

[cloughie]

Grimsby isn't really in the North though

(and relax )

Oh yes it is, it's not Midlands and it's not East Anglia, and relative to Meriden?

[Bryn]

I remember a friend once telling me that his secretary (who I did not know) said that she and her fiancé watched blue movies. . . .

Jarman fans, eh?

[french frank]

Strolling through the Prado the other day (of course I only visit Spain in February, to avoid the riffraff), I remarked to my companion that anyone who professes to have some idea of what Kafka's work is about without having read it in the original is asking only to be made a fool of. How very true, she replied, and obviously the same could be said of Montaigne, Petrarch, Tacitus and the Pre-Socratics.

I'm told Proust is sometimes read in English translation.

[Bryn]

I'm told Proust is sometimes read in English translation.

As, horror of horrors, is Beckett.

[Richard Barrett]

I'm told Proust is sometimes read in English translation.

Insupportable!

And Dostoyevsky too!!!!!

[cloughie]

Insupportable!

And Dostoyevsky too!!!!!

Wasn’t that the Singing Postman, who I understand ended his days in Grimsby - Dosteyevsky a light boy?

[french frank]

Beckett.

Who?

[Serial_Apologist]

Conchientious objectors?

Or maybe Conchis pilots.

[Bryn]

Who?

Watt?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Jarman fans, eh?